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authorbt <bt@btxx.org>2024-06-08 13:22:19 -0400
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-<h1>What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?</h1>
+<h1 id="what-happened-to-self-hosted-blogs">What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?</h1>
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<p>2018-10-18</p>
-<p>I remember a time on the internet<sup>1</sup> when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean <em>personal</em> - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.</p>
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+<p>I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean <em>personal</em> - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.</p>
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<p>Nowadays companies and individuals alike use platforms like Medium to host and promote all of their articles, essays and case studies. I understand the draw, and can even list out the positives:</p>
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<li>A large community already exists under the Medium brand</li>
-<li>It's easy to promote your own work and follow others</li>
+<li>It&#8217;s easy to promote your own work and follow others</li>
<li>The platform is fairly easy to setup and implement</li>
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<p>Unfortunately this has had a pretty severe impact on the blogging community as a whole - no one controls their own blogs anymore. I remember when finding a new blog was an interesting and fun experience:</p>
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<li>how did they decide to layout the page design?</li>
<li>what typefaces have they decided to use?</li>
<li>what back-end are they using?</li>
<li>how does it look and feel on mobile?</li>
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-<p>These custom self-hosted blogs inspired other developers and designers to create their own blogs or tweak current ones. In a way it was a small factor in pushing what we could do on the web further and further, as designers engaged in friendly competition trying to one-up each others' creations.</p>
-<p>I also believe this inspired people to write better content instead of opting for clickbait garbage in order to get "featured" or boosted promotion on the main blogging platform. But I don't even think that's the worst to come of this mass-migration to a singular blogging platform.</p>
-<p><strong>All<sup>2</sup> blogs look identical now.</strong> I'm not sure if that was Medium's intention, but either way I personally think it's horrible. The individual personality of most design and development blogs has been completely stripped away.</p>
-<p>Maybe I'm just a salty designer with a narrow-minded, pessimistic view on where our blogging communities seem to be heading - or maybe I just have higher standards.</p>
-<h2>Refs</h2>
-<p><small><sup>1</sup> <i>the design world of the internet</i><br/></small>
-<small><sup>2</sup> <i>by "All" I mean the majority</i></small></p>
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+<p>These custom self-hosted blogs inspired other developers and designers to create their own blogs or tweak current ones. In a way it was a small factor in pushing what we could do on the web further and further, as designers engaged in friendly competition trying to one-up each others&#8217; creations.</p>
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+<p>I also believe this inspired people to write better content instead of opting for clickbait garbage in order to get &#8220;featured&#8221; or boosted promotion on the main blogging platform. But I don&#8217;t even think that&#8217;s the worst to come of this mass-migration to a singular blogging platform.</p>
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+<p><strong>All2 blogs look identical now.</strong> I&#8217;m not sure if that was Medium&#8217;s intention, but either way I personally think it&#8217;s horrible. The individual personality of most design and development blogs has been completely stripped away.</p>
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+<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just a salty designer with a narrow-minded, pessimistic view on where our blogging communities seem to be heading - or maybe I just have higher standards.</p>
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+<h2 id="refs">Refs</h2>
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+<p>1 the design world of the internet
+2 by &#8220;All&#8221; I mean the majority</p>
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